Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. - Rudyard Kipling

Before the years reborn behold ⁠Themselves with stranger eye, ⁠And the sport-making Gods of old, ⁠Like Samson slaying, die, ⁠⁠Many shall hear ⁠⁠The all-pregnant sphere, ⁠Bow to the birth and sweat, but — speech denied — ⁠Sit dumb or — dealt in part — fall weak and wide.

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Never again will I spend another winter in this accursed Bucket shop|bucketshop of a refrigerator called England.